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The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (1998, Paperback, Reprint) 
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

 
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375701885
ISBN-13: 9780375701887
Product ID: EPID799836
Description: Baldwin's play about a young preacher is based on his own early career preaching on the streets of Harlem.
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Synopsis
Baldwin's play about a young preacher is based on his own early career preaching on the streets of Harlem.

Details
Publication Date:1998-02-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:89 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:4.8 oz

Publisher's Note
One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice.

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of Americas most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

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"What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!... The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. He's a marvel!"
John Cheever

"Dramatic, even cathartic... An equal portion of bitterness and love."
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